Re: Verity vs. sql indexing

2006-01-09 Thread James Holmes
One is built on the other: Ultra Search is an application built on Oracle Text, Oracle's industry leading text retrieval engine. It provides Oracle Text customers with Web-style searching capabilities without the need for any low-level SQL programming. A significant amount of expertise has gone

RE: SPF? How to use?

2006-01-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jennifer Gavin-Wear said: From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] But to get back on topic. Most ISPs use DHCP to assign IP addresses to customers. Even if these IP addresses are semi static (based on some form of option 82), these IPs are not identifiable for outsiders through the

Re: Get last inserted ID

2006-01-09 Thread Ryan Guill
Of course, but there is nothing stopping you from having both is there? You can have an autonumber id that is your primary key if you like, then have a uuid field that is also a key. As long as it is unique, you can use the two interchangably. Or, if you want a friendly order number, why not

SQL Server occasional error.

2006-01-09 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J \(AIT\)
Hi all, Every once in a while we get the following error: Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket. Address already in use: connect The error occurred on line 42. It happens at different times and in different pages/line numbers. I

RE: SPF? How to use?

2006-01-09 Thread Mark A Kruger
As for how to - This post has some good resources at the bottom. http://mkruger.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm/2005/11/3/spf -Mark -Original Message- From: Dov Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 9:02 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: sot: SPF? How to use? I've finally

Re: Intranet Based on CF7 and Contribute

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Everland III
I don't know if I would want to have an entire site managed through Contribute. Your website then would rely on an external application installed on each machine that you need to have licenses for each person that wants to edit the pages. Some departments may want to have 2-3 backups in case

Handling AOL bounces

2006-01-09 Thread Mark Leder
I've had a whitelisting at AOL for sometime now, which works fine. As you probably know, AOL returns end user rejected messages back to the designated sender (me), with a subject line of FW: Client TOS Notification from [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The email address of the recipient who rejected the

RE: Get last inserted ID

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
What version of MySQL was this? ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Baz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 1:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Get last inserted ID Thanks for the info guys -

Re: Intranet Based on CF7 and Contribute

2006-01-09 Thread Deanna Schneider
We do this on a pretty extensive basis. We have something on the order of 300+ Contribute users working on around 150 sites. Some of those are purely static content. Many incorporate some mixing of CF and static content. There are a lot of gotchas. First off, Contribute doesn't not touch all the

RE: Get last inserted ID

2006-01-09 Thread Baz
MySQL5... someone mentioned to append: ?MultipleQuery=True (or something like that) to my connection string in the DB... but it didn't work. -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Get last

Re: ColdFusion Cookbook

2006-01-09 Thread Cutter (CF-Talk)
Still a work in progress but a fantastic beginning. Great work as always Ray, and thank you for everything you do for the CF community. Cutter Raymond Camden wrote: So hopefully this won't' spawn another 100 message thread on food, but the ColdFusion Cookbook is launched:

OT: browser stats

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
I've had a poll running on my blog for a few months, asking what your favorite browser is. I find it interesting that I've had quite a few people vote for Firefox or Opera, when they were using IE to vote! I know a lot of people use IE because they're forced to at work, and others set IE as

RE: Get last inserted ID

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Sorry, I missed the version at the end of your message. I wouldn't know about the ?MultipoQuery=True bit. Ive never used or heard of it. In the select...try Select @@identity as newid; Odds are that it's going to give you the same thing since @@identity is basically a shortcut for

Re: lets give these ppl hell!

2006-01-09 Thread Ken Ferguson
I have just the opposite problem. I can't keep the friends I have now from pissin' ME off; I don't need 29M for me to be mad at! I think they'd be better off advertising on your ability to choose 5 friends from a pool of 29 million. I'm betting NOBODY wants 29M friends. I question that number

RE: browser stats

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
I've found that many people jump on the FF bandwagon and just claim to like and use it constantly... only to find out that they are using IE (and usually don't even have anything else installed). I typically use whichever I open first... IE or FF (FF is default so I use it if I click a link in aim

OT: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Am I EVER going to get into Google Analytics??? I've been on the waiting list for quite some time now. Anyone here using it? Is it worth waiting? Should I stick with SmarterStats? ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com

Re: OT: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Ryan Guill
I signed up quick enough to get in in the beginning, and they just recently (maybe two weeks ago) allowed the ones that are already signed up to track up to 5 websites, up from 2 websites previously for me. So I would say that the time is comming. I enjoy analytics, and would say its worth the

Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
I just voted for Mozilla and IE but I used FF to do it since it lets me clear cookies fast and easy :) Thank's for telling me, now I can go delete all your votes! ;) By the way, does anybody know of a better way to stop people from doing what you just did, better than requiring cookies to

Re: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Jeff Small
Was it a beta that you had to sign up for? I'm doing their sitemapping beta, but I hadn't heard of their analytics...more info please? I'm very curious. Am I EVER going to get into Google Analytics??? I've been on the waiting list for quite some time now. Anyone here using it? Is it worth

RE: lets give these ppl hell!

2006-01-09 Thread Kevin Aebig
Everybody hates me. And I like it like that... !K PS. Yes Emmet, you too... =P -Original Message- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 9, 2006 9:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: lets give these ppl hell! I have just the opposite problem. I can't keep the friends I

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Russ
The only way to make it more secure is to make people put in their email address and then sending them a verification link. At least now people will have to use more then 1 email address to vote, and simply clearing cookies won't work. But then again most people have multiple email addresses

RE: Handling AOL bounces

2006-01-09 Thread Jennifer Gavin-Wear
Hi Mark, I'm assuming you are in the USA and that AOL handle things differently there than in the UK. I send out about 800 emails a week to AOL users and when they bounce the email address is included in the AOL failure message. I've also had a white listing for some time. The AOL message

RE: ColdFusion Cookbook

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
From: Bobby Hartsfield Control + Enter does what in outlook? Good job me... Great, now we're going to get a bunch of half finished emails on the list, as hundreds of people try that shortcut combo! ;-) [INFO] -- Access Manager: This transmission may contain information that is

RE: ColdFusion Cookbook

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
But the main thing is, again, 4.5.2 will do whatever I've asked of it so far, runs flawlesslly...so If it ain't broke... 4.5.2 may not be broke, but MX 7 has a ton of productivity improving enhancements. And the Java stuff is over-rated, I've never touched the Java side of MX myself. I think

SOT: SQL query to get first sentence (using mySQL)

2006-01-09 Thread Andy Matthews
I've got a text field from which I'd like to extract the first sentence for each record. Here's the query I've got so far. SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(j.job_desc,'.',1) AS job_desc FROM jobs The problem is that in some of the records, the first sentence is terminated by a question mark (or

RE: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html Yeah, I guess you would have called it beta... They opened it up for signup and got a huge response and closed it out to new registrants. That was quite a while back. Im just anxious to take it for a spin myself.

RE: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
It's a site stats program, as far as I understand it. And I am still waiting to get in as well. Last I heard they have stopped taking new signups because they got overwhelmed by the hoards of webmasters signing up. But Google says they plan to open up the signup process again later.

RE: Get last inserted ID

2006-01-09 Thread Andy Matthews
mySQL has the LAST_INSERT_ID() function. I do this: SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() as id FROM yourTableName !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Baz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Consolidate Those Student Loans Now!

2006-01-09 Thread Gruss Gott
Anybody else think this is crap especially given the amount of Pork this Congress and President have been spending? Congress Cuts Funding For Student Loans Loss of $12.7 Billion Means That Graduates Will Face Higher Interest Payments, Fewer Options By ANNE MARIE CHAKER Staff Reporter of THE WALL

RE: OT: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Thanks for the update Ryan. I have stats on my site now (and pretty much all sites I've done) courtesy of my CTO and SmarterStats. I'm just curious to see Google's myself! Hopefully it will be soon. You said they give you stats for up to 5 sites now. Are those all stats you can log into

RE: ColdFusion Cookbook

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Haha... at least then... it won't just be me when I hit... ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion

RE: Problem with Alagad Image Component

2006-01-09 Thread Andy Matthews
The Alagad component is encrypted, unless you purchased the unencrypted version (which costs more I believe). !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Michael Clayton

RE: Get last inserted ID

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Yeah Baz... you could try adding the from address to the select @@identity or last_insert_id() I pointed out earlier as well. But it should assume that. Both work fine for me on MySQL5 without the 'from tablename'. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com

Re: OT: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Ryan Guill
I have an administrator login of sorts that allows me to see all of them, but I can create multiple usernames and passwords and allow them to see one or more of the reports specifically. On 1/9/06, Bobby Hartsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the update Ryan. I have stats on my site now

RE: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Rick Faircloth
I was in early because I'm using GoogleWords advertising for some clients. It's great stuff...especially since it's free! I check it everyday...instead of having to use my servers to crunch the numbers, I can drain their system resources! Rick -Original Message- From: Munson, Jacob

RE: Regex ex question. How to match NOT this string.

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
So the JDK uses Perl which is why my lookbehind worked in my class, and then CF uses a proprietary version of Perl's implementation. I wouldn't say proprietary, I'd say incomplete. Perl's Regular Expressions are extremely powerful and complex, from what I've seen. I get lost pretty quickly

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Thank's for telling me, now I can go delete all your votes! ;) Yeah, Wouldn't want to compensate for all the loaded votes and even anything out... Given that... maybe you should just delete ALL votes now ;-) To cut down the multiple votes as much as possible you would need to have user

RE: OT: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Nice. Thanks for the info. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Ryan Guill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Google Analytics I have an administrator

RE: ColdFusion Cookbook

2006-01-09 Thread Rick Faircloth
I'm sure there are light years of improvement in features and productivity between 4.5.2 and MX 7...and when I come upon a business requirement that forces me to spend the app. $650 to upgrade, I will...but until then, I have no need. I'm just a one-man shop, bulding small websites and apps for

RE: OT: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Ps... I don't suppose theirs an 'invitation only' system like GMail had? :-) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:03 AM To: CF-Talk

RE: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Jennifer Gavin-Wear
Hi Bobby, Whether Google gets it's act together or not, I'd not rely on a third party for my analytics unless I had no other option. Having watched Google's direction over the past year or so I am also thinking that the analytics are as much for Google's benefit as any supposed help to us, as

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
You could of course also vote automatically for them based on the user_agent or just use some web stats to see what browser is most popular on your site. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield

Re: SOT: SQL query to get first sentence (using mySQL)

2006-01-09 Thread Claude Schneegans
Check if you database engine accepts regular expressions, othewise I'd go with a UNION: SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(j.job_desc,'.',1) AS job_desc FROM jobs UNION SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(j.job_desc,'?',1) AS job_desc FROM jobs UNION SELECT SUBSTRING_INDEX(j.job_desc,'!',1) AS job_desc FROM

RE: Intranet Based on CF7 and Contribute

2006-01-09 Thread Dawson, Michael
Deanna, this is very helpful. I'm glad to see that you have quite a few users of Contribute. I can't imagine we will have more than 15-20 at any one time. We also tend to share content administrators. If there is a dept that doesn't change their content often, but they still have a need for a

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
From: Bobby Hartsfield Thank's for telling me, now I can go delete all your votes! ;) Yeah, Wouldn't want to compensate for all the loaded votes and even anything out... Given that... maybe you should just delete ALL votes now ;-) Since I'd have to manually delete your votes from my

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
The only way to make it more secure is to make people put in their email address and then sending them a verification link. At least now people will have to use more then 1 email address to vote, and simply clearing cookies won't work. But then again most people have multiple email

RE: Handling AOL bounces

2006-01-09 Thread Mark Leder
I send out about 800 emails a week to AOL users and when they bounce the email address is included in the AOL failure message. Sure wish that were the case here across the pond. The AOL message clearly states the reason for the bounce, whether that is the user doesn't exist ot that the user

RE: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
Having watched Google's direction over the past year or so I am also thinking that the analytics are as much for Google's benefit as any supposed help to us, as has been my experience on their Reporting system for Adwords. I think you're right about Google's motivations with Analytics. If

RE: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Rick Faircloth
Oh, I'm sure the analytics are to Google's benefit...but why not go ahead and use the data their crunching anyway? Rick PS - I do run my own numbers with my home-grown stats packages, too... -Original Message- From: Jennifer Gavin-Wear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
Yeah, I already look at those stats too. It is kind of a dumb poll, but it was the first thing that popped into my head after I'd finished my polling module for Ray Camden's BlogCFC. :) One of these day's I'll think of a good question to replace it with... -Original Message- From:

Re: Intranet Based on CF7 and Contribute

2006-01-09 Thread Deanna Schneider
One thing I forgot to mention - there's a lot of training that goes in if you expect your users to sometimes use web forms to update some content (dynamic calendars, etc) and sometimes use Contribute. We were really surprised at how difficult it was for some people to grasp the separation. We made

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Russ
You can also make it based on the IP address as someone else mentioned, but you would be risking disenfranchising people behind NAT and proxy servers. -Original Message- From: Munson, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE:

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Oh yeah, there's no way to be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that all votes are unique. The IP address was just to minimize multiple votes which I'm still sure it would do in most cases. You'd have to consider the people who would vote more than once to stack the votes for one browser. Who are they? To what

Time Calculation

2006-01-09 Thread Love Sponge
I am developing a form where the user selects a start and end time from a drop down box. the goal is to use both times to calcualte the logon duration. Can anyone tell me what is the best way to go about representing these time in order to use them for calculation. Thanks

RE: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
I'd say that's a given. But the pros of them having and using that info would probably outweigh any cons no matter how you look at it. Plus the benefit of them running the numbers versus my server... Count me in. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com

Stored Proc/CF help!!

2006-01-09 Thread Tim Heald
Ok, Sorry for the OT-ish question, but I was gone for so long that I am having some crazy problems writing this SQL Server Stored proc. I have something like this: Create procedure get_stuff(@status int) As Select @status = status From table Where things = 1 If @status = 1 begin

Re: Time Calculation

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Traher
Use the createtime(hh,mm,ss) function so that CF creates a proper time variable. so cfset start_time = createtime(form.start_hrs,form.start_mins, form.start_secs) cfset end_time = createtime(form.end_hrs,form.end_mins,form.end_secs) you can then use any if the date/time functions on these

RE: Stored Proc/CF help!!

2006-01-09 Thread Brad Wood
How are you calling the proc? If you use cfstoredproc Then use this at the bottom: cfprocresult name=resultset_name_1 resultset=1 cfprocresult name= resultset_name_1 resultset=2 ~Brad -Original Message- From: Tim Heald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 11:07 AM

Advanced time logging

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Is there an IIS setting to log the time a request first came in, when it was handed off to the CF server, when the data was returned and when it was delivered to the client? I'd like to know the difference in reciept of a request and it's generation. Thanks

action script copy by value

2006-01-09 Thread Brad Wood
I am going insane here. I am trying to implement an example from asfusion.com Filtering a cfgrid as you type -revisited- http://www.asfusion.com/blog/entry/filtering-a-cfgrid-as-you-type--revi sited- There is a line of action script where this happens: _global.backupDP =

FW: Stored Proc/CF help!!

2006-01-09 Thread Brad Wood
Sorry, correction: cfprocresult name=resultset_name_1 resultset=1 cfprocresult name= resultset_name_2 resultset=2 I mistyped. The result sets would need unique names. (but you probably figured that out anyway...) ~Brad ~|

RE: Stored Proc/CF help!!

2006-01-09 Thread Tim Heald
They are both still undefined. This is killing me because the procedure compiled just fine, it doesn't have an IN variables, is there something I need to do to specify that they are OUT result sets? -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January

Re: OT: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Ryan Guill
Sorry, I don't believe so. On 1/9/06, Bobby Hartsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ps... I don't suppose theirs an 'invitation only' system like GMail had? :-) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Bobby

Very Odd SQL behavior using Access

2006-01-09 Thread cftalk_list
Hello cf-talk, Hi Everyone, I've got a form that adds registration data to an Access database (clients request). It has a few number fields, each set to long interger and none required. The form passes the info using GET via URL. Now, if the form fields (number) are filled in, all is fine.

RE: Stored Proc/CF help!!

2006-01-09 Thread Brad Wood
Wait a minute-- I just looked at your code again. You really only have one resultset. The first select is just setting the value of your @status variable. I don't know what database you are using, but in SQL server 2000 your proc would look like this: CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.get_stuff @status AS

RE: Google Analytics

2006-01-09 Thread Jennifer Gavin-Wear
Like pretty much all of the changes they have made to the adwords service this year the changes will be to make more money for Google and cost us more to run the campaigns ... Jenny -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 January 2006 16:29 To: CF-Talk

RE: Very Odd SQL behavior using Access

2006-01-09 Thread Brad Wood
That would be because integer fields don't need the ticks around them when updating: Update table Set my_col = 4, your_col2 = 76 You are ending up with: Update table Set my_col = , your_col2 = 76 And that is a syntax error. You need to build your query to only update columns which have a

RE: Very Odd SQL behavior using Access

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Use cfqueryparams in your query -or- #val(url.field2)# ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: cftalk_list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Very Odd SQL behavior

RE: Advanced time logging

2006-01-09 Thread Dave Watts
Is there an IIS setting to log the time a request first came in, when it was handed off to the CF server, when the data was returned and when it was delivered to the client? I'd like to know the difference in reciept of a request and it's generation. IIS doesn't really hand off the

RE: Stored Proc/CF help!!

2006-01-09 Thread Tim Heald
Hey thanks man. -Original Message- From: Brad Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Stored Proc/CF help!! Wait a minute-- I just looked at your code again. You really only have one resultset. The first select is just

RE: Securing a poll (was OT:browser stats)

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
Man... did I just say all that? I'm afraid so. ;) As I said in my original email, this is not a scientific poll. And I agree, this is a silly poll question, and I can get the security of my poll module worked out, then run a real poll. Like: How many rings of power were in Lord of the Rings?

apostrophe in access db field

2006-01-09 Thread Tim Laureska
If you have an apostrophe in an access db text or memo field it shows as a block or question mark in Internet Explorer. how can you work around that? Tim ~| Message:

Re: Consolidate Those Student Loans Now!

2006-01-09 Thread Dana
of course it's crap. But don't forget, it's to help pay for Katrina. That tax cut has nothing to do with this, that's just something the double-plus-ungood liberals made up to bash Bush with. On 1/9/06, Gruss Gott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody else think this is crap especially given the

Re: Consolidate Those Student Loans Now!

2006-01-09 Thread Dana
ooops sorry just saw that this is on talk for some reason. Gruss! Look where you're posting, man! On 1/9/06, Dana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of course it's crap. But don't forget, it's to help pay for Katrina. That tax cut has nothing to do with this, that's just something the double-plus-ungood

RE: apostrophe in access db field

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Use the Acccess with Unicode driver in the cf admin when setting up the datasource. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Tim Laureska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 1:41 PM To: CF-Talk

JAR Launcher Crash?

2006-01-09 Thread Justin D. Scott
We're having an issue with one of our CFMX 6.1 servers where it will seemingly randomly throw up a JAR Launcher crash message through the Windows error reporting utility. This is CFMX 6.1 with the Sun JVM version 1.4.2. Any thoughts on why this would be happening or how it can be avoided?

Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Ken
Hi. I have a form where the user is entering info. There is a closing time for that posting in the db. I want to give regular reminders to the user, that so many minutes are remaining to complete it. I want to give a javascript alert 30 mins, 5 mins, 1 mins and then finally when the time is over,

Re: apostrophe in access db field

2006-01-09 Thread Charlie Griefer
sounds like a 'smart quote' (one of those curly MS Word quotes). there's a UDF called demoronize() at cflib that should handle this. On 1/9/06, Tim Laureska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have an apostrophe in an access db text or memo field it shows as a block or question mark in Internet

Re: apostrophe in access db field

2006-01-09 Thread Ray Champagne
There's also a tag out there called StripAscii that is intended to strip out MS Word high-ascii chars. I think it's called CF_StripAsci, and I *think* I got it on the DevEx. I use it all the time to reformat text submitted via a textarea in a form. We have a place where users can post

RE: Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
http://www.mcfedries.com/JavaScript/timer.asp first link I saw on google. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Javascript

RE: Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Andy Matthews
Ken... Here's a script that I've used before: http://www.andyandjaime.com/uploads/countdown.js Here's how it's used: script language=JavaScript type=text/JavaScript src=includes/countdown.js/script It's set to auto-redirect to a different page at 3. minutes, but it should be simple enough to

Re: Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
one gotcha to be careful with on this tutorial is that once an alert box pops up, javascript will wait for the user to click ok before proceeding. One option you might consider to have a countdown time on the screen at all times, then when it gets to 0, move 'em on. On 1/9/06, Bobby Hartsfield

RE: Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Andy Matthews
It's set to auto-redirect to a different page at 3. minutes, Make that 30 minutes. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- ~| Message:

RE: Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Granted it doesn't do every exact little detail that he wanted... the redirect that he mentioned would replace the alert. The time is displayed in the status bar (you could display it as text in the browser easily too) ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield

OT: Hosting for Government Sites

2006-01-09 Thread Les Mizzell
AAARRGHH! Can anybody point me to a good resource on approved hosting for Government sites (..a Congressman)! I just got off a 1 hour phone call from some government approved host that says It *has* to be done our way and it's gonna costs $7,500 a year and

Re: OT: Hosting for Government Sites

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Everland III
What the heck kind of requirement would HOSTING a site be? I would think the requirements would come from the actual design of the database, like no cookies, make it 508 compliant. Are they trying to tout their security or something? I have not heard of something like this before? I thought

benefits of a web based application

2006-01-09 Thread Brad Wood
All, At my job, we are replacing a PowerBuilder app with a web based CF app. My boss wanted me to write up a paragraph on why web based applications are better than locally installed executables (for an executive meeting). Other than the ease of updates to the system, what else can I

Re: Javascript timeout

2006-01-09 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
true...I just wanted to warn him about that common gotcha. On 1/9/06, Bobby Hartsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Granted it doesn't do every exact little detail that he wanted... the redirect that he mentioned would replace the alert. The time is displayed in the status bar (you could display

OT: Eclipse is the One Ring?

2006-01-09 Thread Munson, Jacob
9 tools were given to the leaders of open source, for they were the weakest. 7 to Microsoft developers, who loved darkness, gold, and war. 3 were given to web developers, the fairest and wisest of all. In darkness and with guile, one tool was crafted in the depths of silicon volcano. One tool to

RE: benefits of a web based application

2006-01-09 Thread Russ
The can be (securely) accessed from anywhere. The data that the app is working with is not going from the db server to each client that is using it, but is on the server, so that network transfer is cut to a minimum. The clients don't need to be as powerful, since they only need to be able to

Re: benefits of a web based application

2006-01-09 Thread Ben Doom
Ease of updates, work from anywhere, centralized data storage, cross-platform compatibility Really, it depends a bit on the application. --Ben Brad Wood wrote: All, At my job, we are replacing a PowerBuilder app with a web based CF app. My boss wanted me to write up a paragraph on

Re: benefits of a web based application

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Everland III
Platform independance, you can work anywhere, as long as standards are followed it can be run on any web browser, no licensing issues that are with an installed application. Bob ~| Message:

RE: Hosting for Government Sites

2006-01-09 Thread Dave Watts
Can anybody point me to a good resource on approved hosting for Government sites (..a Congressman)! The US Senate has hosting for its members, actually. I'm not sure about the House. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber

RE: benefits of a web based application

2006-01-09 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
The best thing I can think of is accessibility. You can get to it from anywhere with an internet connection. To view or manage it. Centralized management of course. Meaning you update the app in one place... no need to distribute patches or updated versions. and even people on MACs can use

RE: OT: Hosting for Government Sites

2006-01-09 Thread Russ
The company I Stand For, www.istandfor.com, focuses exclusively on creating and hosting web sites for political candidates (including those already in office) and non-profit organizations. They have a Content Management System that allows the campaign to update the site at anytime using a

RE: benefits of a web based application

2006-01-09 Thread Ian Skinner
To expand on the they can be run anywhere theme: 1) This reduces costs since presumable one would need a license for each copy of a desktop application installed on a machine, and most likely in an enterprise organization one specific IT personal can install software, so there is there time

Re: OT: Hosting for Government Sites

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Dillman
After spending countless years being in exactly that situation in Indiana... I can confirm that each branch of government has a host for their pages with a 5 year no compete clause. (each branch will have a seperate host) and that host is on the state backbone. to have direct file access your

RE: benefits of a web based application

2006-01-09 Thread Michael E. Carluen
From your manager's perspective, draw up a side by side comparison of the cost to develop, deploy, maintain, and end-of-life the any given app. Unsure how Powerbuilder works nowadays, but client/server apps used to have strict per-seat licensing plus associated cost for runtime deployments.

RE: apostrophe in access db field

2006-01-09 Thread Tim Laureska
Ray... thanks... what's the base url for devex... is this expert exchange you're referring to? thanks Tim -Original Message- From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:14 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: apostrophe in access db field There's also a tag

Re: OT: Hosting for Government Sites

2006-01-09 Thread Jordan Michaels
This sounds like a government-enforced monopoly. -JM Richard Dillman wrote: After spending countless years being in exactly that situation in Indiana... I can confirm that each branch of government has a host for their pages with a 5 year no compete clause. (each branch will have a seperate

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